Montreal unemployment rate declines again, reaching near-record low

The monthly unemployment rate in Montreal reached its second lowest level on record in October.
The unemployment rate for the Montreal census metropolitan area was 5.6 per cent in October, Statistics Canada said on Friday, down from 6 per cent in September and 6.6 per cent in October 2017.
The only time the monthly unemployment rate has been lower, since comparable statistics started being recorded in 2001, was in December 2017, when the unemployment rate was 5.5 per cent.
However, the